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Grundtvig partnership “Everybody can do it!” (ECDI) Newsletter 1 – Meeting in Spain

15-19 November 2013

Parteneri

IES JACARANDÁ (Sevilla,

Spania) – coordinator

Mission Locale de l'Agenais, de l'Albret et du Confluent

(Agen, France)

High School „Stefan Procopiu” (Vaslui, România)

UŞAK MİLLİ EĞİTİM MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ (Uşak, Turkey)

SA Tõstamaa Mõis (Tõstamaa, Estonia)

LEARNMERA OY (Helsinki, Finland)

Accentuate (North East) Limited (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

EUROYOUTH (Lisabon, Portugal)

Project site www.everybodycandoit.eu

Project meetings Spain (November 2012);

Turkey (April 2013);

România (May 2013);

Estonia (October 2013);

France (March 2014);

UK (June 2014);

In accordance with the Treaty of Amsterdam, the goal of this project is to create an European area for

lifelong learning among adults, which will facilitate the development and strengthening of the

European citizenship values such as gender equality, tolerance, anti-discrimination, stereotypes and

prejudices, respect for diversity.

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The partnership’s objectives are: to facilitate the development of innovative practices in adult education to share experiences and good practices regarding the

implementation of the gender equality in adult

education to develop the professional competencies for the staff

involved in adult education to promote the concept of lifelong learning through

adult involvement in various learning activities to consolidate the role of lifelong learning in

developing European citizenship based on

understanding, respect, tolerance, lack of prejudice

and stereotypes, as well as equality between men and

women to improve the linguistic competencies (in English) for learners and staff

These objectives will be achieved through the following activities: 6 meetings of project gender equality activities (workshops, debates,

symposia, seminars, exhibitions) making the research "Women and Men-

realities of European present" workshops "Women inspiring Europe" and "we

are equal!" dissemination and exploitation activities

(project website’s, making posters and leaflets, articles

and newsletters , exhibitions, panel presentation) monitoring and evaluation activities.

The final product of the partnership is the brochure "We are equal! Best Practice Guide

on Gender Equality”.

Between 15th

to 19th

November 2012, 20 members of the Grundtvig team Learning Partnership

"Everybody can do it" (ECDI) participated in the first meeting organized by the coordinating

institution IES project Jacaranda in Brenes, Seville (Spain). The project’s agenda included the

following activities:

"Let’s know each other " (presenting partners: country, city, institution); establishment plan for the first year of project activities;

renegotiation of responsibilities. For example, Spain will make the project’s website,

Estonia will propose a project’s logo, Romania will make the survey "Women and Men -

realities of the European present " to be applied in order to identify stereotypes and

prejudices about gender equality in each partner country. The questionnaire is divided into

Project objectives

Project activities

First meeting project

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three main sections: economic life, family life, public life and participation in decision-

making;

setting data for the following project meeting in Turkey and Romania;

discussions on the project’s site structure and means of communication (email, Drop box,

Skype, Google Docs, wikis etc.) activities for the period November 2012-April 2013, the

questionnaire used to assess project meetings, ways of disseminating the project in the

enlarged educational community, the learner’s profile in partner countries etc.

meeting with the mayor of the town of Brenes (Sevilla) where it is the coordinating

institution Jacaranda IES;

presentation of NGO "Women's Association" of Seville;

social activities and intercultural relations;

Cultural activities: Carmona town visiting and sightseeing in Seville and Torre del Oro and

Naval Museum, Royal Alcázar Palace (the oldest royal palace in Europe still in use, located

on the UNESCO World Heritage list), Santa Cruz Quarter - a former ghetto XV century for

the Spanish Jews, Cathedral (here is the tomb of Christopher Columbus) and the Giralda,

corridors and bull fighting museum, Maria Luisa Park and Plaza of Spain.

For the first year of the project, the following activities were proposed: organization of three project

meetings (Spain, Turkey, Romania), a website and logo design, development, implementation and

analysis of results of the questionnaire "Women and Men-realities of European present

"development of a research on gender equality in each country, the symposium" Women who

inspire Europe”, the workshop" We are equal ", dissemination and evaluation.

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The partnership favors cultural openness of the participants by making them acquainted with the

culture and civilization of partner countries and creating opportunities for the development of

intercultural communication. We hope that this new Grundtvig project will be an incentive for

everyone to address new ways of helping adults to develop their skills and to consolidate various

values of European citizenship.

The Grundtvig Partnership "Everybody can do it!" (ECDI) has been

funded with support from the European Commission. This publication

[communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission

cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information

contained therein.